the space above my ears.

By jigglebonejones

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freestyle poetry/prose absolutely feel free to comment and vote! i love hearing what other people have to say... More

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Oblivion
All the Things
Take a Breath. Start Over.
Mourning Glory
The 15th Layer of Paint on the Wall
The Myths We Don't Retell
Of Empty Rooms and Nonchalance
Being So Sorry
December
The King of Yesterday
House With Two Heads
Court Jesters in Their Truest Forms
Distance Between
The Barest Minimum
Recognizing the Greener Things in Life
Fourest
16 Doors
A Hunter's Lament
Dysphoria
Feral Societies
Pinwheels
Dismemberment of the Saints
Hey, I Love You More Than Anything
The Diamond Theory
Gemini IV
Your Favorite Color of Nosebleeds
Saving Spartacus
The Ghost of Christmas Future
Stuff I Kept
Boy
Chapstick Blues
Rendezvous at the Ticket Booth
Pawn Shop Dreamer
We're Still in Kansas
Portal to Soul
Rabies
Ferris Wheel Duet
Lower
Simon
Intergalactic Intermission
Trial and Error
Mortal World
In the Heat of the Rain
With a Corpse's Indifference
The Ballad of Someone Who Didn't Say it Back
When Outside Rome
Dissonance
How I Feel About Iron Henry
Parachute, Floor
She, The Grass
Innocent Rehabilitations
Breath of God
The Meadows Below
I Would Do the Unthinkable to Give You What You Were Promised
Secrets Among Rabbits
The Fundamentals of Beginnings
Written by a Wendigo
Shoe Gravel/Sole Stones
Forget-Me-Not
Colorado and the Hypothetical Letter
So Be It, Sobriquet
Venus and Her Counterparts
Big Fire Song
Et tu, Brute
Thorazine
37 Club
Rest on the Riverbed
For Want of Catharsis

Reaction Formation in MLA Format

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By jigglebonejones

I would love you if you listened to me.

They are calling out to you trying to tell you what you are, but you don't know it's a call and you're certain it's not for you.

On the right hand, there's a staircase to infinity, but on the left, you're losing everything you love one time or another.

In this memoir, we explore the vast open space of youth, flat and spanning wide as the eye can see.

First, there is the moral dilemma between staying and leaving, others or yourself.

Once you've decided, your fate is sealed.

Now face the issue.

There is physical evidence of your presence in the treasure room. You're screwed.

Find the quietest way out.

There is a moral dilemma between staying and leaving, others or yourself.

To discover your own motives underneath what you covered them with is treachery, so hold your breath.

Your tongue is heavy, thick, and slow, weighed down by truancy.

Your arms are weak and frail but they weigh as much as lead.

You sit too far toward the back of your head, drifting further and further away until suddenly you're no longer inside your body.

You die. Now what?

The million-dollar question.

To discover your own motives underneath what you covered them with is treachery, so hold your breath.

You don't look pretty smoking a cigarette like the girls in the movies, stop wrecking your lungs.

Go outside, fall to your knees, fall apart, have a conversation with a stray cat in the yard and come back anew.

Here's what I would have done differently; the paint in the living room should be a lighter shade and your hair was a little longer than that at the time.

O, they pass, the sensitive shy years.

There hasn't been an original thought in decades.

You don't look pretty smoking a cigarette like the girls in the movies, stop wrecking your lungs.

In conclusion, we never say what we mean so eventually everything will end, just like this.

We'll let go on a whim and begin to fly, and just like this, we'll be shot down from the ceiling.

But I would love you if you listened to me.

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